MARCH 27, 2010 ‘Basically an Optimist’—Still Gary Becker By PETER ROBINSON Stanford, Calif. ‘No, no. Not at all.” So says Gary Becker when asked if the financial collapse, the worst recession in a quarter of a century, and the rise of an administration intent on expanding the federal government have prompted him to reconsider his […]
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New York Times March 21, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform By DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN Arlington, Va. ON Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office reported that, if enacted, the latest health care reform legislation would, over the next 10 years, cost about $950 billion, but because it would raise some revenues and lower
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Feeding the deficit’s appetite WASHINGTON As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is inevitable. We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects that another $12 trillion will be
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 25, 2010 ObamaCare Day One Democrats dragged themselves over the health-care finish line in part by repeating that voters would like the plan once it passed. Let’s see what they think when they learn their insurance costs will jump right away. Even before President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday, Caterpillar
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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the
Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. Congress health care vote: a dark day for freedom in America By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: March 22nd, 2010 138 Comments Comment on
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MARCH 22, 2010 How can fund managers assume an 8% rate of return? By ANDREW G. BIGGS Pension plans for state government employees today report they are underfunded by $450 billion, according to a recent report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. But this vastly underestimates the true shortfall, because public pension accounting wrongly assumes that
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RAHN: All the president’s economists March 9, 2010 Richard W. Rahn The Congressional Budget Office, in last week’s update of President Obama’s budget forecasts, estimated that budget deficits will average nearly $1 trillion per year for the next decade. There is no school of economics (classical, Austrian, Keynesian, etc.) that says deficits of this magnitude
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Senior Political Analyst March 7, 2010 (AP) “Stop messing with Texas!” That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas’ anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as well
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This cartoon was in the Chicago Tribune in 1934. Look carefully at the plan of action in the lower left corner. … “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” Thanks to Carlyn Pollack for sharing this cartoon with us.
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